GRE Word List
AMALGAM
a mixture of different elements
The meaning of the word amalgam is a mixture of different elements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| plume | a feather of a bird: such as |
| physiognomy | the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
| comity | friendly social atmosphere : social harmony |
| collected | gathered together |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |